Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libvirt  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1504-LIBVIRT-628317
  • published29 Jan 2015
  • disclosed29 Jan 2015

Introduced: 29 Jan 2015

CVE-2015-0236  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvirt package and not the libvirt package as distributed by Ubuntu.

libvirt before 1.2.12 allow remote authenticated users to obtain the VNC password by using the VIR_DOMAIN_XML_SECURE flag with a crafted (1) snapshot to the virDomainSnapshotGetXMLDesc interface or (2) image to the virDomainSaveImageGetXMLDesc interface.